The need for data centers in Indonesia has increased drastically along with the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, pushing the industry to shift from air-based cooling technology to liquid cooling as a future infrastructure solution.
"All data centers are moving towards AI data centers. This means that almost all data centers will change their infrastructure from air-cooled to liquid-cooled," said Schneider Electric Indonesia's Business VP Data Center Ellya Cen in a Media Masterclass themed Liquid Cooling & Next-Gen Data Center Infrastructure.
This shift is inextricably linked to the tremendous surge in computing power requirements. The power requirements per server rack continue to rise dramatically with the arrival of the latest generation of increasingly dense and hot AI chips.
"What was originally 3 kilowatts has become 120 kilowatts. And this year, in the third quarter, the Rubin server will be released, with one rack having a capacity of 600 kilowatts," said IDPRO Chairman Hendra Suryakusuma.
It is this heat surge that makes conventional air conditioning no longer adequate, 70 percent of the heat in a data center comes from servers, making cooling the entire room an inefficient method.
